The government said he has been one of the “most influential civil servants of recent times”, leading both the Treasury through the pandemic, and the government through the global financial crisis in 2008.
Some 1,109 awards were given out in the first list signed off by King Charles, of which 548 were women.
Ivan Menezes, chief executive of Diageo, was included in the list, as well as Rolls-Royce chair Anita Frew and Lord Mark Sedwill, who stepped down as cabinet secretary in 2020.
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